Round rim-bound top for tables



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. A

CHARLES 0. BREESE, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

ROUND RIM-BOUND T01? FOR TABLES.

Application led April 16,

To all whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. Brunnen, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Round Rim- Bound Topsfor Tables, of which the following is a speeication.

My invention relates to an improvement in round rim bound tops fortables, and the object is to provide a solid or veneered top of cheaperand stronger construction than heretofore; and this invention consistsin a core which may either be solid or veneered, with its rounded edgemolded into the form or contour desired, in connection with a bent rimcorrespondingly molded on its inner edge to interlock with, and adaptedto be made to adhere to, the edge of the core, after which its outersurface may be left as originally formed or fashioned into any desiredshape, to suit taste and requirements.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a plan view of a fragment of arim bound table top;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 9. of Fig. 1.

The numeral 1 represents the core, which may be made of one solid piece,or which might have one or two layers of veneer (not shown) at the top.

The rounded edge is molded somewhat as illustrated in Fig. in a generaldiagonal direction running straight across and in more or lesscircumferential flutings or corrugations 2 and 3, with an extended outersurface 4 which terminates preferably in an abrupt outer periphery 5 atone end, and at the other in an angular circumferential groove 6 and alshoulder 7. This shoulder 7 and the periphery 5 preferably extendapproximately at right-angles to the adjacent outer surfaces of the top.

In this way, the molded edge is given an expanse of area as well as acorrugated contour that interlocks with the molded inner edge of the rimof bent wood 8. whose inner edge conforms precisely to and fits theoutermolded edge of the core, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. A layer ofglue or adhesive material Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

1920. Serial No. 374,351.

9 is interposed between the two, whereby to make a solid union of coreand rim.

After being thus formed, the table top may be used with a square outeredge, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, which is its originalform, or it may be put in a lathe and turned down into any shape, forinstance that illust `ated in the full lines l1, and when thus fashionedleaving the shoulder 7 exposed as a part of the finished edge of thetable top.

In .this way, no end wood or fiber of the core 1s left exposed, and therim being made of bent wood, no end fiber of that is exposed, except atthe very ends of the straight center of the table top, where it gets nowear, and is never exposed to view. In this way, I have provided asimple and comparatively inexpensive solid or veneered top of relativelycheap construction, easily manufactured, and with a solid and permanentjoint formed between core and rim.

Obviously the contour of the molded edges might be varied, the essentialfeature being an edge with a maximum expanse of interlocking surface toreceive the glue which causes the core and rim to tightly adhere, as ifcomposed of a single solid part.

I claim:

rim bound top yincluding a core, the curved edge of which is molded intothe form of a diagonally-disposed circumferential {iuting orcorrugation, with the extreme ends extending approximately atright-angles to the adjacent surface of the core and having acircumferential groove adjacent to one of ysaid ends, and a rim moldedon its inner periphery to correspond with and lit the molded outer edgeof the core, said rim adapted to be fashioned from the point where itjoins the outer surface of the core into the external shape desired,thus leaving the upper transversely-extending edge of the core finallyexposed as a part of the permanent outer edge of a portion of the top.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES O. BREESE.

